“These plans appear to extend ‘creepy’ into the physical world.” Renate Samson, Big Brother Watch Form follows function. Whether it is UX or a classic dining chair, the function should determine the best form and a designer’s job is to...

I had to ask myself this week if this is all a little tinfoil-hat. I look at the public applications of the internet of things. I try to communicate what I see happening. It can be hard not to sound a touch paranoid. I’m still a long way from warning on the...

No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. – John Dewey, “The Public and its Problems” In 1927 Dewey probably had a...

Devices on the Internet of Things are powerful and can influence us in ways we don’t fully appreciate or anticipate. This great power confers great responsibility on designers and product managers at companies producing these devices. It is difficult to put into...

Part of the reason I put this email together is that there is a need to tie together some of the more sociopathic ends toward which technology is aimed. The IoT is full of possibilities for the quantified self. Without forewarning, how can we be forearmed? It...